Morris, Edmund, as RR’s official biographer:
controversial approach of, 409
in first meeting with Reagans, 407–8
NR’s regrets about, 409, 570
NR’s role in selection of, 408–9
Morris, Sylvia Jukes, 407
Moscow, 1988 summit in, 460–62, 501
Motion Picture Production Code, 97
movie industry:
Communist scare in, 75, 91, 107, 434
publicity machine of, seeHollywood publicity machine
Movie Life, 72
Movie Stars Parade, 72
Ms., 251
Mulroney, Brian, 577
Murillo, Rosario Maria, 326
Murphy, George, 136, 138
Muskie, Edmund, 467, 487
Myerberg, Michael, 64
My Father at 100: A Memoir (Ron Reagan), 535
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, 17, 307, 508–9, 519–20
Nancy (N. Reagan), 229
Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (Kelley), 522–24
sympathy for NR generated by, 523–24
Nancy Reagan Drug Abuse Foundation, 403
Nashua Telegraph, 215
National Cancer Institute, 425
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 330
National Committee of Physicians for Wendell W. Willkie for President, 41
National Conference of Christians and Jews, 45
National Enquirer, 430
National Federation of Republican Women, 195
National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association, 261–62
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 411, 419
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 323, 329, 330
National Institutes of Health (NIH), RR’s budget cuts to, 412
National League of Families of American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 168
National Republican Conference of Mayors, 189
National Security Council (NSC), 385, 433, 468, 483
in Iran-contra scandal, 467
Natural, The (film), 378
Nazimova, Alla, 61, 590
Edie’s friendship with, 11–12
lesbian relationships of, 12
as NR’s godmother, 46
NBC News, 484
NBC Nightly News, 237
Nelson, Jack, 253
Nessen, Ron, 194
Neustadt, Richard, on NR’s political astuteness, 297
New England Journal of Medicine, 411
New Hampshire primary (1980), 214–20, 221
Newsweek, 158, 255, 309, 352
New York, N.Y., 63
New York, 225, 231
New York, SS, 20
New York Daily News, 246, 256
New Yorker, 94
New York Post, 353
New York Times, 74, 91, 95, 183, 188, 191, 194, 196, 208, 294, 325, 334, 357, 380, 404, 419, 426, 442, 455, 469, 473, 487, 493, 496, 518, 522, 523–24, 533
AIDS crisis underreported by, 412
on RR’s presidential prospects, 171
Next Voice You Hear, The (film), 74, 96–97
Nicaragua:
cocaine industry in, 326
Sandinista-contra conflict in, 434, 468, 501
Nixon, Pat, 261
Nixon, Richard M., 98, 171, 383, 516, 518, 522
funeral of, 541–42
in 1968 presidential campaign and election, 174
resignation of, 182, 184
on RR’s relationship with Washington establishment, 241
in Watergate scandal, 170, 182, 183, 186
Nobel Peace Prize, 433, 462
Nofziger, Lyn, 148, 158, 171, 189, 190, 191, 376, 378, 504
and assassination attempt, 272, 280–81
on Battaglia’s firing, 157
in 1980 presidential campaign, 206, 208, 221, 227
NR’s conflict with, 156–57, 158–59, 208
NR’s glamorous lifestyle as concern of, 250
Reagan Foundation purge attacked by, 525
as RR’s California communications director, 156
on RR’s loss to Ford, 199
as RR’s PAC head, 204
Sears disliked by, 207
Noonan, Peggy, 82, 521, 574
on NR’s power in RR’s administration, 396
Norquist, Grover, 567
North, Oliver L.:
congressional testimony of, 501
in Iran-contra scandal, 468, 473, 478, 501
NR’s assessment of, 468–69
NR’s role in blocking Senate ambitions of, 527–29
Northwestern University, Patti at, 179–80
Northwestern University Medical School, 33
Notre Dame University, 503
Novak, William, as NR’s My Turn coauthor, 508–9
Oakland Tribune, 144, 164
Obama, Barack, on RR’s legacy, 565
Office of Presidential Personnel, 308
O’Leary, Dennis, 281
Olson, Dale, 416–17
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 248, 306
One of These Nights (album), 181–82
On the Outside Looking In (M. Reagan), 366–67, 368
Opfer, George:
and assassination attempt, 269–70, 271, 273–74
NR’s relationship with, 268, 514
opioid crisis, 321
Orlando, Tony, 196
Orr, Robin, 243
Ortega, Daniel, 326
Osborne, Kathy, 470, 483, 490
on NR as RR’s protector, 155–56
Pacific Palisades, Calif.:
Reagans’ all-electric dream home in, 114–15, 122
Reagans’ Amalfi Drive home in, 107
Reagans’ departure from, 244
Pacific State Hospital, 167
Page, Susan, 314
Palmieri, Doria, seeReagan, Doria Palmieri
Parade, 61, 285, 376
Parent Movement, 322
Parr, Jerry, 269
Parsons, Louella, 74, 88, 92
Parvin, Landon, 17, 262, 318, 498
and NR’s antidrug speeches, 319
NR’s Gridiron spoof written by, 317, 318
NR’s relationship with, 422
and RR’s Alzheimer’s disease, 538
RR’s amfAR speech written by, 422–23, 424–25
RR’s Iran-contra speech written by, 490–91, 493
in Tower’s meeting with RR, 491, 492
Passavant Memorial Hospital, 45, 47
NR admitted to, 97–98
Patrick, Curtis, 140, 154, 535–36
Patton, Sheila, seeTate, Sheila
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 54, 57
Pearson, Drew, 158
Pediatric AIDS Foundation:
Elizabeth Glaser as founder of, 430
Reagans on advisory board of, 430–31
Pentecostal Christians:
NR’s involvement with, 441–42
Soviet release of, 441
Penthouse, 368
People, 242, 343, 344
Percy, Charles H., 171
Petersen, Ronald, 535
Petro, Joseph, 290, 292, 537–38
and NR’s concerns about RR’s safety, 345
Philadelphia, Miss., 226–27
Philadelphia Inquirer, 10, 539
Phillips, Howard, 241
Phoenix, Ariz., Davis family winter stays in, 56, 70, 106
Phoenix House, 256
NR’s withdrawal of support for, 519
Pickens, T. Boone, Reagan Library fund-raising by, 566–67
Pitts, ZaSu, NR’s acting career promoted by, 63, 64, 66–67
Playboy, Ron as contributor to, 358
Poindexter, John M., 465, 501, 570
Iran-contra and firing of, 468
as national security adviser, 472–73
as shielding RR from knowledge of contra funding, 501
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 35
Portillo, José López, 550
Powell, Colin L., 513, 546
Powers, Stephanie, 98
Presidential Medal of Freedom:
awarded to NR, 559
awarded to RR, 541
President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (Cannon), 1
President’s Commission on the HIV Epidemic (Watkins Commission), 425–26, 428, 429
“Pretty Nancy” (Didion), 147–48
Prisoner of War (film), 110
Proposition 6 (California), RR’s opposition to, 209–10
Public Broadcasting System, 421
Public Health Service, US, 423
Publishers Weekly, 409
Putzel, Mike, 273
Quayle, Dan, 512, 537–38
Quayle, Marilyn, 538
Quigley, Joan:
background of, 346
Gorbachev’s astrological chart done by, 351
memoir of, 353, 520–21
NR’s payments to, 347, 350
NR’s reliance on, 341–42, 346–54
and RR’s Bitburg cemetery visit, 394
Quincy Method, 30
Quinn, Sally, 241, 520
NR profiled by, 230–31
Radcliffe, Donnie, 325
Rancho del Cielo (Reagan ranch), 169, 292–93, 516, 517, 545, 550
NR’s decision to sell, 551–52
Random House, 508
Morris’s RR biography bought by, 408
Rangoon, Burma, bombing of, 345
Reagan: A Life in Letters (Skinner, ed.), 569
Reagan, Ashley, 362, 363, 367
Reagan, Bess, 248
Reagan, Cameron, 248, 362, 366
Reagan, Christine, birth and death of, 92
Reagan, Colleen Sterns, 179, 248, 363
Reagan, Doria Palmieri, 357, 415
and assassination attempt, 275–76
illness and death of, 573–74
NR’s relationship with, 405
Ron’s relationship and marriage with, 200–201, 241–42
Reagan, In His Own Hand (Skinner, et al.), 569
Reagan, John Edward “Jack,” 86–87
alcoholism of, 80, 81–82
death of, 99–100
Reagan, Maureen, 90, 248
abusive first marriage of, 121
acting career of, 177
and assassination attempt, 281
birth of, 89, 92
cancer and death of, 557
conservatism of, 359
as excluded from gubernatorial campaign, 139–40
frequent White House visits of, 361
on Michael’s public rift with parents, 363
in 1982 Senate campaign, 359–60
in NR’s campaign to oust Regan, 474
NR’s difficult relationship with, 99, 121, 140
NR’s improved relationship with, 361
and parents’ divorce, 94
political involvement of, 359–60
as RNC special consultant, 360–61
RR’s 1976 presidential bid opposed by, 183
in RR’s 1980 presidential campaign, 212
RR’s Alzheimer’s disease and, 545
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